storied
English
Alternative forms
- storeyed (UK, sense 3)
Adjective
storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)
- much talked or written about
- historical
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3
- Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3
- (chiefly US) having multiple storeys; multistoried
- Sir H. Wotton
- We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.
- Sir H. Wotton
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